Now that you know What is Affiliate Marketing you should become familiar with How the DYNAMICS of Affiliate Marketing Works.
By getting a strong understanding of the dynamics of affiliate marketing you will have a better sense of as to WHY you must do certain things in a certain way when building your affiliate marketing business.
Remember, you are creating a business out of thin air… ONLINE… which is very different than creating a business out of concrete, windows, and doors.
What do I mean?
When you start a physical business on 100 Main Street, Anywhere USA, there will actually be a building and also a product or a service that people can physically see and touch.
Your prospective customers will have the opportunity to walk into your physical store and talk to you, and your customers will have the opportunity to get to know you, see you face-to-face, and evaluate you and your business, and build a relationship with you, human-to-human.
This type of physical interaction between you and your customer is ideal as this can build confidence and trust between you and your customer fairly quickly… though success is not guaranteed.
Let’s talk about the DYNAMICS of an ONLINE business
When you first create a business ONLINE, such as an affiliate marketing business, you have some tremendous challenges.
First, no one knows who you are, and second, you may never have the opportunity to meet anyone face-to-face or to speak to anyone at all.
Third, your website or blog might as well be a set of car keys lost somewhere in the middle of 92 acres of tall grass, with 70 million blog posts posted every single month, no one may ever find your blog or your website in the first place… ever.
Fourth, affiliate marketing is not a unique business opportunity, in fact, over the course of many years, hundreds of thousands of people have tried their luck at affiliate marketing, and most have failed miserably, and some have even tried more than once, and have failed many times over.
Fifth, you are going up against some multi-million-dollar-organizations which have very efficient affiliate marketing systems in place, and without a doubt, these major organizations do have some major advantages.
And number SIX… with the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (Ai) the competition, that has already been fierce, may have placed many affiliate marketers at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
Now these are some very significant challenges indeed, but none which cannot be overcome.
I have said it before and I will say it again… if you want to succeed with affiliate marketing, or with any type of online business, you MUST become a Digital Marketing Expert, which is not difficult to accomplish, you just have to be willing to do the work.
In my view, affiliate marketing is just like any other fiercely competitive commission based industry, you have to get after it every single day… until you achieve your definition of financial success.
Realtors, Auto Dealers, Stock Brokers, these professions have the potential to create multi-millionaires, but it is never a foregone conclusion.
As you build your affiliate marketing business, you will inevitably develop a personality that will transfer onto all of your online created content, and this is exactly what you want to happen, in fact, it is mandatory, as your unique personality is the very thing that will separate YOU from the sea of blogs and websites on the internet.
However, without question, there are some fundamental principles that MUST be applied to every blog or website, for that blog or website to have any possible chance of survival, in addition to living a long and profitable life on the internet.
Without these fundamental principles, you might as well be yelling ‘giddy-up’ at a dead horse, as you will be going no where.
Of course, I also want these fundamental principles to make sense to you, because if they do not, then you most likely won’t apply them and you will create a spec on the internet that no one will ever visit.
With this in mind… I created the following visuals:
You create content on a blog post or a website page while applying several search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to attract targeted visitors
As you create your content, you strategically place affiliate links on your blog post or web page, which undoubtedly encourage your visitors to click on your affiliate links
When your Visitor arrives on your website or blog, your Visitor consumes your content which creates confidence and establishes YOU as a credible authority on a particular product or a particular subject
Your Visitor, based on your strong, authoritative, and convincing content, grows to TRUST YOU and your recommendations, which motivates them to click on your recommended affiliate link, which takes them to the website of your recommended product or service
If your Visitor makes a purchase on your recommended merchants website, then you earn a commission for the sale
I created this page with the intent to make it as clear in your mind as I possibly can of How the Dynamics of Affiliate Marketing Works between your website (and/or blog) and your Visitor.
You may only get one crack at connecting with your Visitor and convincing your Visitor that you are the absolute authority on the subject that they are interested in.
You cannot fake this part, you have to be as real and as infectious as a virus, you have to be able to make them stick-and-stay on your website and come back for more.
There are several ways to accomplish this goal and all of this will be revealed to you as we move along with this FREE Affiliate Marketing Course.
The training wheels are about to come off and there ain’t no cruise control on this money making machine… let’s go to work.